Washing-machine



F. T. CLUGG. WASHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED .IAN.28, 1920. 1,376,255. Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

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W ASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. v Patented Aprf 26, 1921.

Application filed January 28, 1920. VSerial No. 354,733.

To all who/m t may concern:

Be it known that I, FLORENCE T. CLUGG, a citizen of the United States,residing at Spencer, in the county of Marathon jand State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inWYashing- Machines;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to washing machines, its principal objectbeing to provide aV washing machine having scrub brushes or othercleaning elements supported therein for cooperation with the usualagitator in performing the washing operation.

A further object of the invention is to provide'a washing machine whichincludes a plurality of removable brushes or other cleaning elementswhich are arranged to permit one or more of the brushes to be removedwhen they become worn and new ones substituted therefor.

Another general object of the invention is to provide a washing machinewhich is simple in construction, consist-s of few parts, and which maybe manufactured and sold at a minimum cost.

With the above and other objects and advantages in mind, the inventionconsists in the novel combination of elements, construction andarrangement, operation, and speciiic features all of which may beenlarged upon and are explicitly deined in the appended claims.

On the drawing:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a washing machine embodying myimprovements;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the machine having the cover removed;

Fig. 3 is a section taken along line 3-3 of Fig. l, and

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the central cleaning brush. V

Referring in detail to the drawino wherein like characters of referencedesignate like parts in all the views, the numeral 5 designates areceptacle provided with a re'- movable lid 6. An agitator 10 isrotatably supported in the lid 6 and is rotated through the medium of adrive means designated as at 11. The agitator and the drive means formno part of the invention but are shown for the purpose of illustratingthe application of my invention.

The inner face of the side walls of the receptacle 5 is provided with aplurality of parallel vertical dove tail grooves 12 ineach ofwhichfrem'ovable brushes 13 are engaged. These brushes 13 are retainedagainst longitudinal movement by set screws 14C carried by plates 15mounted on the receptacle 5 and passing through the walls of thereceptacle and fitting into sockets formed in the uppermost brushes.

The bottom of the receptacle is provided with a central opening 16 andextending radially from this opening 16 upon the inner face of thebottom are a plurality of dove tail grooves 17 which extend to the outeredge of the bottom. Brushes 18 are insertible in these vgrooves from theinner! ends. rlhe grooves 17 in the bottom do not register with thevertical grooves 12 and therefore the brushes 18 are out of alinement ordisposed in staggered relation to the brushes 13. A -circular brush 19also of scrub brush fiber and provided with a backing plate 19 is placedin the central opening 16 and is so disposed that the peripheral edge ofthe back of the brush engages the ends Vof the brushes 18 thuspreventing longitudinal movement of the same. A plate 20 is secured tothe under face of the bottom of the receptacle by securing screws 21.This plate underlies the brush 19 and carries a set screw 22 whichextends through the center of the plate and into a threaded socketformed in the back of the brush to retain the brush in position. Thisplate also carries an upstanding pin 23 engageable in an opening 24inthe back of the brush to retain the brush against rotation while theclothes are being cleaned.

From the disclosure it will be manifest that I have provided a washingmachine wherein the scrubbing element may be readily removed from thereceptacle when the same becomes worn and new ones substituted therefor.

- The structure shown and described is a practical embodiment of theinvention but it will be understood that the same may be modiiied inmany respects, and that'such limits of modification are only governed bythe subjoined claims.

What is claimed is :--v

1. A washing machine including a receptacle provided with an opening inthe bottom thereof and further provided with dove tail grooves in theinner face `of the bottom radiating from the ropening and vertical dovetail grooves upon the inner face ofthe Walls of the receptacle, a brushremovably engaged in each of the grooves, and a ybrush "which 'extendradially from the opening,

the side Walls of the receptacle also being provided with thelongitudinal dove ltail grooves positioned in staggered relation to thegrooves inthe bottom, cleaning elements insetible in the radialldisposed grooves from the central opening, and a brush closing theopening, the edges of the back of the latter brush abutting the innerends of theV radially disposed brushes, and brushes removably engaged inthe grooves in the side walls of the receptacle.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature in presenceof two Witnesses.

FLORENCE T. CLUGG. 'Witnessesz Y Y O. M.'Booo1, A. J. MolLHA'rTAN.

